The Osceola times., 1887-08-20
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss ALICE FREEMAN has presented
the Christian Woman's Exchange OF
New Orleans with set Of views of
Wellesley College.
Mrs. MARY V. HOGAN is starting a
White Cross Home in Garret, Ellis
County, Texas. She appeals to gen.
erous public for help.
DIR. JENNIE MCCowEN is superin-
tendent OF the Social Purity Depart
ment of the Woman's Christian TEN.
perance Union of Davenport la.
Miss MARCIA MARVIN. daughter Of
the late Bishop +. NJ. Marvin, has ac-
cepted the position of matron in the
Mission School at Piracicaba. Brazil,
and will shortly start for her new field
Of labor.
You can not read history, unless you
read it upside down, without admitting
that women, crampcd, fettered ex-
cluded, degraded as she has been, has
vet sometimes, with one ray Of her in
stinctive genius, done more to settls
great questions than all the cumbrous
intellect of the other sex has achieved.
Wendell Phillips.
MRs. H. NJ. PLUNKETT. of Pittsfo!i,
wrote the admirable little volume,
"Women, Plumbers and Doctors" ia
which the necessity of knowledge ot
sanitary science is set forth clearly and
well. Many of the womcn's clubs are
taking hold Of household sanitation. 1t
is study particularly necessary TO
every woman who has, or ever expects
to have, any supervision of house.
FLORENCE NJ. Atkinson wrote q
clever salutatory in the opening num-
ber OF the Womaa's NeOs, edited by l..
MAY Wheeler and Nettie Ransford, in
indianapolis. Mrs. Atkinson says a
very hopeful indication of the times is
that women are less disposed to go in
droves. The brightest and bravest
strike out into unbeaten paths They
study the laws of supply and demand,
and seek to do the work the world
wants and is willing to pay for.
GRACE HOWARD writes from the
Crow Creek Mission. Dakota, that her
plans for the betterment Of tho indus
trial condition of the Iadian women
are already well under way. She has
not gone West as a teacher, as the
papers have reported, but her scheme,
which is an original one, is to open on
small scale an establishment for the
cutting, fitting and manufacture OF
clothing and other household articles
which the Indians now beg from the
missionaries, or buy.
: Mrs. CELIA w. WALLACE, OF Chi
cago, is planning an industrial schoo
for boys in that city. Mrs. Wallace i
rich and philanthropic woman. mucl
! interested in the waits Of the street
! The institution is to be, in n measure
! reformatory, but in no sense penal
r and no commitments will be made Il
it from the courts. Homeless waif
! of the class who drift into the court
I will be taken there. however, retained
1 by moral suasion, and given chance
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boy from going back to the street. !
he chooses, and this liberty will nat
urally sift out the hopelessly incorrig
ible. leaving in the school those bes
worth saving from their unfortunate
r surroundings.
MRS F. c. FLOYD has invented |
waterproof bonnet" manufacture,
Of rubber gossamer fabrics, for whicl
she has received patent In the United
States and has applications pending
in other countries. The material il
now manufactured in many fancy de
signs and in every color, making per-
feet imitation of the bonnets and hat
) now worn. Its great advantage is in
! destructibility by rain, the terror OF
! ladies who wear valuable bonnets.
: They will, therefore. welcome NJ
article impervious to moisture, and yct
handsome enough to be worn a
church, theater or elsewhere, either IL
pleasant or stormy weather. 1t 10 no
, heavy, and is very becoming.